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Whitley Strieber portraitWhitley Strieber

Charting Apr 29, 1984Oct 15, 1989 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.98%
week of Jun 17, 1984
Career Power
20
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
15
July 1983 – July 1984
Peak Five Years
15
July 1979 – July 1984
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.16%
week of May 20, 1984
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

2 books · 20 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Wardaywith James W. Kunetka#71015.3
Majestic#1424.5

At their peak

1983 in books

Whitley Strieber's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1983 to July 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Stephen King446
  2. 2Umberto Eco420
  3. 3James A. Michener404
  4. 4Danielle Steel317
  5. 5Robert Ludlum246
  6. 6Joan D. Vinge193
  7. 7Jackie Collins180
  8. 8Bill Adler143
  9. 9Thomas Chastain143
  10. 10Judy Blume140

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.